STANDARD LIFE is not ruling out amending its company rules in order to fend off further petitions fo...
STANDARD LIFE is not ruling out amending its company rules in order to fend off further petitions for demutualisation of the sort rejected yesterday when the company wrote to member David Stonebanks, The Scotsman writes today. His petition for a General Meeting of the company's members to consider a vote on demutualisation was rejected for not being "legally competent", although SL took care not to reveal exactly why it did not meet the rules. However, Stonebanks has already said he will put together another letter of petition, which elicited this response from SL's head of c...
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